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大家围观一下美国当代的白卷英雄,一个穆斯林娃在申请普林斯顿申请书上写了一百个#blacklifematter, 被录取了!When Ziad Ahmed was asked "What matters to you, and why?" on his Stanford University application, only one thing came to mind: #BlackLivesMatter.
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Princeton, New Jersey — wrote #BlackLivesMatter exactly 100 times. The$ R5 l" A/ L5 y& \2 J
risky decision paid off. On Friday, Ahmed received his acceptance letter$ ?5 W8 s5 j) n$ Q
from Stanford.
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"I was actually stunned when I opened the update and saw that I was admitted ," Ahmed said in an email. "I didn't think I would get admitted to Stanford9 b! N% H3 }3 Y$ B: }. X
at all, but it's quite refreshing to see that they view my unapologetic! D# k5 O) t: i
activism as an asset rather than a liability."
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3 e; c- a; r: l& m8 K! YOn Saturday, Ahmed posted his answer and acceptance letter on Twitter with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. The tweet now has over 700 retweets and over0 n" T3 |' n* F8 h
2,000 likes. It has also been retweeted by members of Campaign Zero, a
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